@MegaStoneSmash91: The Japanese anniversary of the first WarioWare is on Friday, March 21st, so that's when I'll be watching for Wario. Yoshi's New Island is slated for a Summer 2014 release for Japan, but it's coming out in the West on Friday, March 14th, so I wouldn't think Sakurai would want to wait so long to show Yoshi. So we could see almost back-to-back veteran reveals of Yoshi and Wario in March with only a week separating them.

So that cunning little scamp is back. I was never good as him in Brawl, but it's always nice to see a veteran return regardless. It is also interesting that Sakurai, for the first time, made a character reveal for a game release date that wasn't Japanese.

SSB4 is full of firsts for the franchise when you think about it.

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Avian fact of the week: The Moa, an extinct relative of ostrichs and emus that inhabited New Zealand, was the tallest bird that ever lived at 12 ft tall (3.6 m). It was also the only known bird to have no wing structure.

I am just glad to see he is not paired with Dixie Kong.
I do hope she gets revealed in the future, though.

nah...
if sakurai would add 50+ characters.. then sure, i'd be happy if he added dixie kong then, but right now?! no, thanks
who knows how many characters we'll end up with.. 30?
character slot would be wasted on such an unimportant character + we've already got 2 apes, that's enough

I've never been a fan of a lot of the characters revealed so far because I didn't play some of those games, but I'm pretty happy with the last two announcements (Little Mac and Diddy). And as far as I'm concerned, they can bring on Dixie and Cranky Kong as well. The more Kong's, the better! That cane would be deadly, lol.

I'm a little more excited about this game after the past week or so of news.

I'm pretty certain at this point that all veterans from Brawl will return (with the exception of a few such as R.O.B, Ike and Snake) and we have probably yet to see all of the newcomers. I wonder if Sakurai has revealed any hidden characters so far. I estimate we're going to have about 40-50 this time around. We've already met Melee in terms of number of characters, and I don't think we've even scratched the surface!

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I'm pretty certain at this point that all veterans from Brawl will return (with the exception of a few such as R.O.B, Ike and Snake) and we have probably yet to see all of the newcomers. I wonder if Sakurai has revealed any hidden characters so far. I estimate we're going to have about 40-50 this time around. We've already met Melee in terms of number of characters, and I don't think we've even scratched the surface!

I think with Toon Link back it might as well be safe to assume that all will return. The only one I'm not 100% sure on is Snake.

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Avian fact of the week: The Moa, an extinct relative of ostrichs and emus that inhabited New Zealand, was the tallest bird that ever lived at 12 ft tall (3.6 m). It was also the only known bird to have no wing structure.

Yaaaay another little mac image. I though the entire week would be devoted to images of him but whatever.
On a side note, anyone else love Samus's design in this game. I think the her suit was a bit off in other m but really like it here.
All in all, really loving the art style the have chosen for this game.

P.S. WingedSnagret I feel your pain, no one to play with except brawls online.
That is what I look forward to most, a (hopefully) great online experience.

Sakurai already said it was based on Other: M, but yeah, I love it.

I know it is based on other m, but it is not a copy and paste of it, like he said.
It looks better here.

I usually hate rumours but i found this. It was posted before the Ashley assist reveal. A lot of this has actually been true so far. Its not a 100 percent reveal of the roster but its an interesting read.